Lightning Talks: Halloween Edition

Join us to celebrate Halloween with a series of lightning talks on spooky and magical web development topics! We will be joined by a very special Guest, Megan Smith, who served as CTO of the USA during the Obama Administration. She will be giving a talk about an organization called Vital Voices (https://www.vitalvoices.org).

We will be wearing our favorite halloween-themed clothing and costumes and encourage everyone to dress up! There will be time to network and meet other attendees after the talks.

Lightning Talks

Vital Voices (https://www.vitalvoices.org) - Megan Smith, CEO shift7, Former U.S. CTO
GraphQL - The Friendly Ghost - Marian Lumba
Arcane Animation: The Sinister Sine - Brandon Heyer
Machine-generated nightmares: Creating scary stories using text generation NLP methods - Allie Saizan
The Pull Request Curse: An Open Source Ghost Story - Brittany Walker
Conjuring Accessibility++ - Pearl McPhee

Laptops
Laptops are optional! Feel free to bring yours if you'd like to follow along with someone or leave it at home if you just want to listen.

Meetup Agenda
Every study group will have the following format:
• 6:30pm - Setup & Networking

• 6:40 - 6:50pm - Quick introductions

• 6:50 - 8:15pm -Lightning Talks

• 8:15 - 8:30pm - Wrap Up

Resources

To learn more about us please visit our Github page - https://github.com/womenwhocodedc/front-end-community

• First Timer's Guide: http://bit.ly/fehn-first-timers
• HTML Study Guide: http://bit.ly/fehn-html-guide
• JavaScript Study Guide: http://bit.ly/fehn-js-guide

• Also join our Slack group (WWCDC's online community to ask for technical help and network with other women in tech): http://bit.ly/wwcdcslack

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors!

Thank you to Social Tables (https://www.socialtables.com/) for providing event space and catering our event.

Thank you to Demosphere (https://demosphere.com/) for providing beverages for the event.

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